Title from item., Four columns of verse below image: Things are now at such a pass, that every fool must have his ass ..., Temporary local subject terms: Coalitions: France and Spain, 1762 -- Lawyers: barrister as an owl., and Mounted to 32 x 49 cm.
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publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784, Temple, Richard Grenville-Temple, Earl, 1711-1779, and Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778
"Satire on the resignation of Lord Bute. George III is enthroned, Peace and Fame flying above and a large dog and a lion crouching at his feet; he welcomes the Duke of Newcastle and William Pitt who kneel before him (it was assumed that these two men would return to government, although in the event George Grenville replaced Bute). Britannia is seated in the centre of the print, facing a hydra-headed monster of faction; she is saying "See this and Tremble all you that wish evil to Israel" (Israel standing for England); behind her a Spaniard and a Frenchman despair at their loss. At top left, the Lord Mayor of London (probably intended for William Beckford) and a group of aldermen approach the king with a petition. At top right, a witch flies off on a broomstick over the "Flus Jordanus" to the "Alpes Herbronites" (the River Tweed and Scotland) carrying Henry Fox, two other ministers and the devil. One of the ministers wishes that "the Devil had the Author of Gisbal" (see BM Satires 3848) alluding to the role of the satirists in driving Bute to resign. Charles Churchill and John Wilkes fire at the broomstick, Wilkes wanting "One Pounce more and we will bring that Irish Owl to the Ground". In the foreground, on the right, Princess Augusta runs off carrying a diminutive Bute in a large boot on her back; she is chased by the Duke of Cumberland brandishing a sword and crying "Damn the Scotch Loon he flies faster than his Bretheren did in 45. If I come up with him I'll spoil his Running"; the young Duke of York runs with him. On the left, a group of sailors harrass a Scotsman declaring,"We will stand by our Noble Captain till not a Sawney be feft in the Land", "O O Jack see what this Dog has got to wet his Whistle with" and "Lend me your Sneaker [a rod] Tom I'll Probe him who knows but the Rascal has got his Belly full"; coins fall from the bagpipes clutched beneath the Scotsman's arm."--British Museum catalogue
Alternative Title:
Boot put to the flight
Description:
Title from item., Reduced and reversed copy of a print with the same title published on April 8, 1763. Cf. Stephens., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Plate numbered '35' in upper right corner., Plate from: The second volume of The British antidote to Caledonian poison: ... for the years 1762 and 63, ... London : E. Sumpter's, [1764]., Temporary local subject terms: Mythology: Hydra -- Literature: Gisbal -- Resignations: Lord Bute's resignation, 1763 -- Personifications: Fame -- Personifications: Victory., and Mounted to 32 x 45 cm.
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publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765, Edward Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1739-1767, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, Churchill, Charles, 1731-1764, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771, Dashwood, Francis, Sir, 1708-1781, Murphy, Arthur, 1727-1805, and Beckford, William, 1709-1770
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character), Devil, and Thrones
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Military -- Soldiers' uniforms -- General Evening Post -- Bills & petitions: address from the City of London on the loss of Minorca -- Literature: quotation from Shakespeare's Henry VIII, 2.353-59 -- Literature: quotation from Shakespeare's Hamlet i.5.9 -- Reference to Greenwich., and Watermark: Strasburg lily with initials L V G below.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act of Parliament, Sepr. 9, 1756, to be had at the Lyon near St. Paul's
Subject (Name):
Byng, John, 1704-1757, Torrington, George Byng, Viscount, 1663-1733, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Anson, George Anson, Baron, 1697-1762, and Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768
Subject (Topic):
Soldiers, British, Military uniforms, Newspapers, and Devil
Title etched above image., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Sheet partially trimmed to plate mark., Publisher's statement following publication information: To be had [the] corner of [the] West Passage of [the] Royal Exchange in Castle Alley., Two lines of verse below image: Since honesty is but an empty name, He that cheats the least is most to blame., Temporary local subject terms: Westminster Abbey -- Westminster Quay -- Westminster Hall -- Slang: cole (money)., and Ms. annotations in an unidentified contemporary hand at bottom of sheet identifying subjects.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Anson, George Anson, Baron, 1697-1762, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, and Hardwicke, Philip Yorke, Earl of, 1690-1764
A devil (demon) holds an executioner's axe on the right as Bute, Bedford, and Holland sit round a table settling Lord Holland's accounts
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Plate from: The town and country magazine. London : Printed for A. Hamilton, v. 1 (1769), page 641., and Numbered 'No. XXXVI' in upper right corner.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1710-1771, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, and Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774
"An engraving representing Lord Holland as an old fox, seated at a table and starting back in horror from a book which is presented to him by an angel who cries: -- "This is the black Catalogue of thy Misdeeds". The book is inscribed: -- " Sins which L d H nd has committed against God his K his Country & himself"; it comprises two columns of imperfect, unconnected, and reversed words and scribble, and one legible word "Ayliff". To this word the finger of the angel is directed. For this name of a steward to the Fox family, who was alleged to have been wrongfully hanged by means of Lord Holland, see "Ayliffe's Ghost", British Museum Satires No. 4038. At the front of the table is a book inscribed, besides illegible scribble, with: -- " Accompts to be Settled in the other World"; this is an allusion to the charges of vast peculation which were brought against Lord Holland, the so-called "notorious defaulter of unaccounted millions"; see "Frontispiece to the Middlesex Petition", British Museum Satires No. 4289, and "Renard Stating his Accounts", British Museum Satires No. 4299. An imp sits at the table and acts as Lord Holland's secretary; a second imp crouches behind his chair and niches gold from a large bag."--British Museum catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Plate from: The Oxford magazine or, Universal museum ... London : Printed for the authors, v. 4 (1770), page 168., Temporary local subject terms: Records: catalog of misdeeds., and Mounted to 32 x 37 cm.
"Satire on the end of Lord Rockingham's administration shown as a dance at court. The verses below describe the protagonists who have been numbered in pen and ink: in the centre, Princess Augusta (1) dances with Lord Bute (2) their joined hands holding a leading string attached to Pitt (3) with a gouty leg who leans on his crutch, adorned with a coronet, as he converses with America, a half naked native American woman holding a bottle of rum. To the left of the Princess, stand Charles Townshend (4), holding a weathercock, beside his partner Britannia standing on her head, her shield and spear fallen on the ground. Further left, Lord Northington (5) robed as Lord President of the Council holds a glass of wine towards his elaborately dressed young woman (6; identified by Stephens as Betty Careless, although she had died in 1752). On the right, Henry Fox (7) dances with the devil; behind him are a Frenchman saying he will not pay the Canada Bills recompensing Britain after the Seven Years' War, and a Spaniard saying he will not pay the Manilla Ransom, a sum of two million dollars offered to Britain by the governor of Manilla when the city was captured. At far left, the king (8) plays the fiddle accompanied by two Scottish bagpipers. Wilkes (9) flies above, a copy of his Essay on Woman in his pocket, bound for Paris on a broomstick with a witch who says she will take him anywhere but to Scotland; he defecates on the head of Lord Bute. In the foreground stand four politicians: Temple (10) saying that he will get Francis Hayman to paint the scene for his garden at Stowe; Newcastle (11) wearing spectacles; Rockingham (12) wearning boots and carrying a riding whip; Winchilsea (13). Verses below in six columns, each with the chorus, "Doodle doodle doo""--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
New country dance as danced at Court July the 30th 1766
Description:
Title etched at bottom of image., "The devil seems to have been inspired by the work of Jefferyes Hamett O'Neale and other facial types echo those in prints designed by him"--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue registration no.: 1868,0808.4386., Publication date based on advertisement in The Public advertiser, Sept. 4, 1766., Description based on an imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark at bottom resulting in loss of text below image, including distribution information and price from lower right corner. For missing text, see British Museum online catalogue., Figure numbered '6' is most likely a depiction of Fanny Murray., and Mounted to 28 x 43 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, Charles III, King of Spain, 1716-1788, Louis XV, King of France, 1710-1774, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Townshend, Charles, 1725-1767, Northington, Robert Henley, Earl of, 1708?-1772, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, Rockingham, Charles Watson-Wentworth, Marquis of, 1730-1782, Temple, Richard Grenville-Temple, Earl, 1711-1779, Winchilsea, Daniel Finch, Earl of, 1689-1769, Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, Murray, Fanny, 1729-1778, and Hayman, Francis, 1708-1776.
Subject (Topic):
Influence, Britannia (Symbolic character), Alcoholic beverages, Brooms & brushes, Crutches, Devil, Eyeglasses, Prostitutes, Symbols, Weather vanes, and Witches
Title etched above image., Following imprint: Pr. 6 pence., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Four columns of verse below image: See here my good masters a fine raree show, will please ev'ry one from the high to the low ...
Publisher:
Sold at Sumpters Political Printshop, Fleet Street
Subject (Name):
Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1766-1839, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Smollett, T. 1721-1771 (Tobias),, Murphy, Arthur, 1727-1805, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, Churchill, Charles, 1731-1764, Beckford, William, 1709-1770, Temple, Richard Grenville-Temple, Earl, 1711-1779, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, Whitefield, George, 1714-1770, and D'Urfey, Thomas, 1653-1723.
Subject (Topic):
Seven Years' War, 1756-1763, Britannia (Symbolic character), Bagpipes, Clergy, Devil, Hangings (Executions), National emblems, French, Scottish, Newspapers, Puppet shows, Signs (Notices), Theatrical productions, and Wheelbarrows
"Satire on the negotiations leading to the Peace of Paris in response to Hogarth's "The Times Part 1", but also with visual echoes of his much earlier print, "Southwark Fair". In the centre is a large theatrical booth advertising "The Full and Whole Play of Dido and Aeneas" with a show-cloth on which the lovers are depicted taking shelter in a cave; below is platform on which stand Bute and Princess Augusta accompanied by a zany, a drummer (Arthur Murphy) and a trumpeter (Tobias Smollett). Hogarth, portrayed as an ape, stands on a ladder painting a sign-board with a portrait of Pitt (echoing the sign painter in "Beer Street"); at the foot of the ladder another ape, representing the Duke of Bedford, ambassador to Paris, sits on a small table holding a sheet marked "Prelim Peace". Henry Fox looks out of a window at the top of the booth. On the left, Bute stands on stilts playing the bagpipes with a large bag of money hanging from his neck; he is supported by admiring Scotsmen and adored by a group of bishops. Behind him is an inn with the sign of the thistle advertising "Geud Scrubbing for Mon and Horse"; an ass peers throuh a window and an ass's skull hangs above. Beyond, Scotsmen rejoice as buildings burn, while three fireman sleep beside their engine; an owl representing the French ambassador, the Duke de Nivernois, flies overhead carrying on olive branch (in place of Hogarth's dove with the olive branch) . In the foreground a mastiff urinates on an impression of Hogarth's "The Times Part 1"; Charles Churchill gestures towards a bonfire on which is burning "The Wandsworth Epistle" and "The Briton" (Smollett's newspaper) while a sailor, watched by Britannia, brings a wheelbarrow laden with other journals (echoing the barrow containing "The North Briton" in Hogarth's print). Behind this group, William Beckford draws the attention of Pitt, Temple and Newcastle to the happy Scots; Cumberland, bald-headed, shakes his fist. The British lion grasps a dead French cock in his jaws and looks angrily at a Frenchman who hands coins to a Dutchman leaning on a bale marked "Neutrality" (a similar Dutchman in Hogarth's print sits on a bale smoking contentedly). Behind the lion, George Whitefield, arms outspread and a devil blowing with bellows into his ear, preaches from a three-legged stool to an old woman with a prayer-book and a man with the head of an ass. On the left, three further show-cloths hang on the wall of a house, referring to performances at "Punch Political Poppet Show with a Scotch Uproar": "Then", with the figure of Fame crowning a British commander; "Now", with a Scotsman at the prow of a boat foundering on the rocks of "New Lost Land"; "Alive from France & England" with a clown raising his fist and his foot at a Frenchman (echoing the sign, "Alive from America", in Hogarth's print); at the top of the house a Spaniard and a Frenchman, both grinning, look out of a window."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Variant state without imprint and with different price, added in top right corner. See British Museum catalogue., In upper right corner: Price 1 sh., and Four columns of verse below image: See here my good masters a fine raree show, will please ev'ry one from the high to the low ...
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765, Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1766-1839, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, Smollett, T. 1721-1771 (Tobias),, Murphy, Arthur, 1727-1805, Holland, Henry Fox, Baron, 1705-1774, Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, Churchill, Charles, 1731-1764, Beckford, William, 1709-1770, Temple, Richard Grenville-Temple, Earl, 1711-1779, Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of, 1693-1768, Whitefield, George, 1714-1770, and D'Urfey, Thomas, 1653-1723.
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character), Bagpipes, Clergy, Devil, Hangings (Executions), National emblems, French, Scottish, Newspapers, Puppet shows, Signs (Notices), Theatrical productions, and Wheelbarrows